CLOSING NIGHTFLOR DE AZUCAR (SUGAR FIELDS)NEW YORK PREMIERE

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Producer, Director and cast will be present for a Q&A with audience following the film.

The Dominican Republic’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Category at this year’s Oscars, Báez’s ambitious adaptation of Juan Bosch’s short story “Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve” follows the lives of two peasant couples in the island’s sugar cane fields in the late 40s. The happily married Samuel unintentionally kills a soldier of Trujillo’s regime during a barroom brawl, forcing him to flee to the island of Saona, leaving his pregnant wife Elena and child behind. At the same time a Haitian couple fleeing hunger and poverty cross the border to work in the sugar fields. Samuel ‘s return a year later triggers a chain of events with dire consequences.

Director’s Biography Fernando Báez Mella (1957) comes from a family of photographers and filmmakers. His grandfather, Tuto Báez, made the first ever feature film in the Dominican Republic. Báez Mella’s feature film, EL REY DE NAJAYO, premiered in March 2012 along with approval of the new Film Law of the Dominican Republic and is considered by critics to be among the Dominican Republic’s top film productions. He is currently the president and owner of Unicornio Films, the oldest production house in the DR, and owns Único Advertising, Marketing Green.

Producer, Director and cast will be present for a Q&A with audience following the film.

The Dominican Republic’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Category at this year’s Oscars, Báez’s ambitious adaptation of Juan Bosch’s short story “Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve” follows the lives of two peasant couples in the island’s sugar cane fields in the late 40s. The happily married Samuel unintentionally kills a soldier of Trujillo’s regime during a barroom brawl, forcing him to flee to the island of Saona, leaving his pregnant wife Elena and child behind. At the same time a Haitian couple fleeing hunger and poverty cross the border to work in the sugar fields. Samuel ‘s return a year later triggers a chain of events with dire consequences.

Director’s Biography Fernando Báez Mella (1957) comes from a family of photographers and filmmakers. His grandfather, Tuto Báez, made the first ever feature film in the Dominican Republic. Báez Mella’s feature film, EL REY DE NAJAYO, premiered in March 2012 along with approval of the new Film Law of the Dominican Republic and is considered by critics to be among the Dominican Republic’s top film productions. He is currently the president and owner of Unicornio Films, the oldest production house in the DR, and owns Único Advertising, Marketing Green.